Windows IT Pro has just aired an interesting interview (if you’re an IT pro that focuses on operating systems – aren’t we all?) of the daily “ship” meeting for Windows Server 2008 R2, a week before it went RTM (released to manufacturing). The overall program manager Brian McNeill is the main interviewee, and the always colorful Iain McDonald also has a cameo.
My colleague Karen Forster, who handled the project, has a good blog post about it.
For those of you that still have old doubts about how reliable the Windows server product is, check out these numbers:
Those reliability statistics McDonald was looking at were noteworthy. The Microsoft study shows that the new release significantly exceeds the reliability goal that was set for its predecessor Windows Server 2008 (WS08) at its RTM. As the graph in the video shows, WS08 R2 RC demonstrated availability of 99.9987 percent (~ 7 minutes of down time per year), which exceeds WS08’s RTM availability of 99.9978 percent (~12 minutes of down time per year)."
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